What is Self-Directed Learning

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A learning strategy which allows learners take charge of their own learning process (diagnosis learning needs, identify learning goals, select learning strategies, and evaluate learning performances and outcomes). Learn more in: Gender Characteristics: Implication for Cross-Cultural Online Learning

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A learning process where people take initiative to “plan, carry out and evaluate their own learning experiences” ( Merriam & Caffarella, 1999 , p. 293). Learn more in: Leading Adult Learning in Organizations

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The process of identifying your own potential in formulating learning goals. Learn more in: Study of Students Emotional Intelligence Influencing Factor of Their Readiness for Online Learning: An Empirical Investigation

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The ability for a person to formulate a plan and identify the tools, resources and strategies needed for one's own learning. Behaviors and characteristics associated with self-directed learning are related to intrinsic motivation, integrity, agency, diligence, perseverance and grit. Learn more in: Leading P-12 Transformative Initiatives in Personalized Learning: Empowering Teachers and Students to Assert Agency in Their Own Development

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Adults controlling their own learning process, or “Learning in which decision around what to learn, how to learn it, and how to decide if one has learned something well enough are all in the hands of learners” (Brookfield, 2013, p. 90). Learn more in: Navigators on the Research Path: Teaching and Mentoring Student Qualitative Researchers

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Also known as self-concept or self-initiated learning, it is one of the six principles of adult learning. Learn more in: Workplace Learning: A Paradigm Shift to Improve the 21st Century Workforce

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The process of being in command of one’s own learning path, through taking the initiative to set own goals, identifying learning needs, formulating learning goals, identifying resources, implementing appropriate learning strategies, and evaluating the outcomes of the learning process. Learn more in: Facilitating Blended Learning in Underprivileged Contexts: A Self-Directed Curriculum as Praxis View

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Individual learner’s initiative and responsibility to (with or without assistance) identify, assess, and set priorities for learning needs. Learn more in: Insuring Self-Direction and Flexibility in Distance Learning for Adults: Using Contracts

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A model that describes how individuals take responsibility and the initiative to set their own goals and strategies to meet their learning needs. Learn more in: The Design of Design: Choose Your Own Adventure Pathways in a Graduate Instructional Design Course

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Taking the initiative about learning and receiving minimum guidance from others. Learn more in: Non-Traditional Students in Higher Education: Barriers and Strategies for Self-Directed Learning

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Type of learning whereby learners take responsibility for what to learn, when and how. Learn more in: Technology in Support of Self-Access Pedagogy

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Taking action and responsibility for one’s own learning. Learn more in: Reaching “Creating” in Bloom's Taxonomy: The Merging of Heutagogy and Technology in Online Learning

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Learning that occurs when learners explore, question, react, and respond to learning material relevant to their needs. Learn more in: Using Heutagogy to Address the Needs of Online Learners

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Defined as learners taking initiatives to teach themselves by using their own teaching or learning methods. Learn more in: Cultures and Self-Directed Learning

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A mode of learning, instructional process, or learner characteristic marked by increasing responsibility for one’s learning to include selection of topic, resources, mode of study, and assessment. Learn more in: Evolution of Adult Education: Is our Future in E-Learning?

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Self-directed learning is a learning method whereby the student takes initiative for learning. This includes activities such as selecting, managing, and assessing their own learning activities. Teachers provide advice, direction, and resources to support the student while peers provide collaboration. Learn more in: A Model for Motivation-Driven Assignment Design

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A process in which students take the initiative to diagnose their learning needs, formulate learning goals, and manage their learning activities. Learn more in: Virtual Learning: A Study of Virtual Reality for Distance Education

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Adult learning theory based in individual freedom. Learn more in: Virtual Learning Communities in Organizations and Institutions of Higher Learning: Implications for Technology, Learning Practice, and Organizational Culture

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A learning process in which individuals take charge of their own learning by identifying and fulfilling their own needs and goals. Learn more in: Preparing Principals in Educational Leadership Programs: Exploring Problems of Practice With Self-Directed Learning Projects

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Refers to learning experiences in which the learner has the primary responsibility for engaging with, planning strategies and pathways in order to successfully complete a learning task. Learn more in: Towards Realizing Twenty-First Century Skills: Deliberate Scaffolding of Metacognition in Instruction

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Independent learning, self-education, autodidacticism, self-learning. Learn more in: Designing Integrated Learning Paths for Individual Lifelong Learners and/or Small Groups: Backwards Curriculum Design From Target Complex-Skill Capabilities (for Nonformal Informal Learning)

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The process of obtaining knowledge independently by taking the initiative to select and manage the learning activities. Learn more in: Self-Sustaining Ecosystem for Learning and Communication: Self-Directed Professional Development as a Desired Learning Outcome

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An instructional process where a learner assumes primary responsibility for the learning process; and as a personality characteristic centering on a learner’s desire or preference for assuming responsibility for learning (see www.infed.org/archives/e-texts/hiemstra_self_direction.htm ). Learn more in: Andragogy and Technology

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The ability to direct one’s own learning without the guidance of an instructor. Learn more in: Leveraging Instructional Technology to Design Diverse Learning Experiences Through Collaborative Stakeholder Engagement

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Independent learning, with or without the presence of an instructor. Learn more in: The Adult Learner in Higher Education: A Critical Review of Theories and Applications

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A model that describes how individuals take responsibility and the initiative to set their own goals and strategies to meet their learning needs. Learn more in: Andragogical Design Considerations for Online Multicultural Education

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A process where a student takes responsibility for own learning, by applying strategies to identify and address learning needs, and to evaluate learning outcomes. Learn more in: Deeper Self-Directed Learning for the 21st Century and Beyond

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Defined by Guglielmino (as cited in Merriam & Caffarella, 1999 AU65: The in-text citation "Merriam & Caffarella, 1999" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ), self-directed learning “…consists of a complex of attitudes, values, and abilities that create the likelihood of an individual …” (p. 290) to direct their own learning journey. Learn more in: Inclusive Learning for the Rural Healthcare Professional: Considering the Needs of a Diverse Population

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Refers to learning experiences in which the learner has the primary responsibility for engaging with, planning strategies and pathways in order to successfully complete a learning task. Learn more in: Online Learning and Metacognition: A Design Framework

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Students are empowered to learn at their own pace, catering to the different learning speeds and styles of individuals. Learn more in: Teaching Medical Statistics over the Internet

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An instructional strategy where the students, with guidance from the teacher, decide what and how they will learn. Learn more in: Adult Learner Characteristics Important for Successful Learning in Cross-Cultural Web-Based Learning Environments in Higher Education

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“In its broadest meaning, ‘self-directed learning’ describes a process by which individuals take the initiative, with our without the assistance of others, in diagnosing their learning needs, formulating learning goals, identify human and material resources for learning, choosing and implement appropriate learning strategies, and evaluating learning outcomes.” ( Knowles, 1975 , p. 18) Learn more in: Use of Technology-Enabled Informal Learning in a Learning Organization

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Adult learners managing and directing their own learning in balance with their daily and professional realities. Learn more in: Exploring Future Seamless Learning Research Strands for Massive Open Online Courses

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A process through which individuals diagnose their learning needs, formulate plans and goals, identify resources, implement learning strategies, and evaluate learning outcomes. Learn more in: In the Nexus: Learning Pods as Learning Micro-Societies

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Learning that is controlled and managed by the learner. Sometimes it is viewed as a teaching technique, but in other instances it is learning outside of the educational institution undertaken by learners out of their own interests, needs and concerns. Learn more in: The Theory and Practice of Teaching in Today's Colleges and Universities

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A process of learning in which people or individuals takes primary initiative for planning, carrying out, and evaluating their own experiences. Learn more in: Revitalizing Blended and Self-Directed Learning Among Adult Learners Through the Distance Education Mode of Learning in Ghana

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Self-directed learning is an instructional strategy that places the responsibility for the learning progress on the learner. Learn more in: Technological and Ethical Challenges of Online Education: Adapting Medical Education to Digital Platforms

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The ability to autonomously employ the necessary strategies to meet learning goals. Learn more in: Providing Validity Evidence for Ignite by Hatch: A Digital Game-Based Learning Experience for Preschool Children

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The operational definition most used in defining self-directed learning includes that it consists of a complex of attributes, values and interests, and creates the likelihood that adult learners are capable of self-directing their learning ( Merriam et al., 2007 ; Wang & Cranton, 2012 ). Learn more in: Human Patient Simulations: Evaluation of Self-Efficacy and Anxiety in Clinical Skills Performance

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A process by which individuals take the initiative, with or without the assistance of others, in diagnosing their learning needs, formulating learning goals, identifying human and material resources for learning, choosing and implementing appropriate learning strategies, and evaluating learning outcomes. Learn more in: E-Textbooks as a Classroom Tool

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Each individual takes responsibility and accountability for his/her own learning.Synchronous Program: A program facilitating all participants attending face-to-face together online at the same time, e.g. Elluminate, Skype. Learn more in: The Role of Leadership and Communication: Re-Conceptualizing Graduate Instruction Online

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A process in which a student is responsible for organizing and managing his or her own learning activities and needs. SDL encourages individuals to become responsible for their own learning, identify gaps in their knowledge gaps and critically appraise new information. Learn more in: Becoming Aware: Connecting Curriculum With Lived Experience

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Learners choose their priorities and resources to meet their set goals. Learn more in: Fostering Learner Control in an Online Beginner German as a Foreign Language Course

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Individual learners are motivated to take on decisions related to their own learning. Learn more in: Innovative Instruction in STEM Education: The Role of Student Feedback in the Development of a Flipped Classroom

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Students who work on their academics independently by understanding what assignments they need to complete, formulating goals, and choosing appropriate materials and actions to complete those goals and assignments. Learn more in: Academic Motivation and Self-Discipline Strategies for Online Learners

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Each individual takes responsibility and accountability for his/her own learning. Learn more in: The Role of Leadership and Communication: Challenges Reconceptualizing Graduate Instruction

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Learning process that a student completes without the guidance of the instructor. Learn more in: Teaching With Case Studies in Higher Education

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A highly debated concept that several noteworthy theorists have attempted to define. For purposes of this chapter, we look to Susan Isenberg’s attempt to explain Tough’s view that SDL was basically self-teaching. Learn more in: The Socratic Way and Adult Learning: Exploring a Nelsonian View of the Socratic Method in Self-Directed Learning Encounters.

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Learning in which the student identifies gaps in her/his knowledge and seeks to correct those deficiencies by doing research, evaluating the quality of the new information sources, imparting the new information to peers, and receiving feedback from peers and faculty members. Learn more in: 21st Century Problem-Based Learning: A Medical Education Asset by Rational Design or Retrofit

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An instructional process that encourages students to take responsibility for their own learning process through strategies that lead to autonomy. Learn more in: The CPS Strategy: Challenges and Perspectives – A Flipped Learning Format in Foreign Language Courses

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The process by which individuals implement learning practices based on self-identified learning needs. Learn more in: Early Medical Education Readiness Interventions: Enhancing Undergraduate Preparedness

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A process where individuals take initiative in order to increase their knowledge or skills at any time and place without the help of teacher. Learn more in: Interactive Learning System for Primary Schools using Tablet PC

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The process by which the individuals takes the initiative in their learning by forming learning goals, choosing materials, implementing learning strategies, and evaluating their learning. Learn more in: Adult Learning Theories and Principles

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Learning that takes place when the learner takes the initiative to identify their individual learning needs, develop strategies and goals, implement those strategies, and evaluate the results. Learn more in: High Tech, High Touch, High Context: Social Dimensions of Learning in Online, Hybrid, and Learning Pod Environments

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When an individual takes the initiative and the responsibility for learning. Learn more in: Independent E-Learning: Khan Academy, Motivation, and Gamification

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When individual learners are motivated to take on decisions related to their own learning. Learn more in: iPads in the Classroom: Benefits and Challenges